$304,000–$437,000
Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area with hybrid work
46 postings · 33 companies · 40 state pay: median $244,000, half $226,000–$265,000
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$191,000–$289,300
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
$280,000–$320,000
$220,000–$270,000
$264,000–$379,500
Principal Software Engineer / Architect – AI, CoCounsel FDE
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +7 moreSan Francisco, CA +8Hybrid
$158,900–$340,000
$158,520–$294,360
$185,000–$300,000
$194,000–$266,000
Senior/Staff FDE - Synthetic Data Generation
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$180,000–$320,000
Forward Deployed Engineer, Team Lead
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$190,000–$270,000
$168,912–$253,368
$200,000–$270,000
Pay not posted
Principal Backend Engineer (Forward Deployed)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$250,000–$300,000
Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$210,000–$300,000
$195,000–$215,000
Infrastructure Engineer, Customer Delivery
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$200,000–$250,000
$200,000–$290,000
$200,000–$250,000
Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
$405,000–$485,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
$230,000–$294,000
$210,000–$300,000
AfreshLeads the deployment team
Founding Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
San Francisco, CAHybrid
$203,745–$275,655
Mesh PaymentsLeads the deployment team
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$600,000–$900,000
DatadogLeads the deployment team
Forward Deployed Engineering Manager - Datadog for Startups
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$200,000–$250,000
Snorkel AILeads the deployment team
Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$200,000–$320,000
AircallLeads the deployment team
Director, Forward Deployed Engineering & AI GTM Lead
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Pay not posted
HackerRankLeads the deployment team
Director, Forward Deployed Engineering
Santa Clara, CA · Mountain View, CASanta Clara, CA +1Hybrid
$300,000–$350,000 · base + variable
Snorkel AILeads the deployment team
VP, Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$268,800–$403,000
$208,000–$260,000
AnthropicPlans what the customer deploys first
Technical Deployment Lead
San Francisco, CA · Boston, MA · +2 moreSan Francisco, CA +3Hybrid
$275,000–$380,000
BetterUpPlans what the customer deploys first
Staff Product Manager, Forward Deployment
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
$180,000–$250,000
BetterUpPlans what the customer deploys first
Principal Product Manager, Forward Deployment
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +2 moreSan Francisco, CA +3Hybrid
$210,000–$295,000
ZooxBuilds for teams inside the company
Lead AI Engineer – Enterprise, Data & AI
Foster City, CAHybrid
Pay not posted
BenchlingBuilds for teams inside the company
Software Engineer, Tools and Automation
San Francisco, CAHybrid
$195,000–$265,000
$154,000–$213,000
24 of 46 build what the customer runs.
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Frequently asked questions
What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area with hybrid work pay?
40 of 46 postings state a pay range. The median is $244,000, and half of them sit between $226,000 and $265,000, from 28 companies.
How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area with hybrid work require?
Of 46 postings, 38 state a minimum number of years, from 28 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 19 of them. The rest ask for 10 or more years (10) or 3 to 5 years (9).
Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area with hybrid work?
These 46 postings come from 33 companies. The employers with the most postings are Anthropic (3), OpenAI (3), Snorkel AI (3), Snowflake (3) and Afresh (2).
Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area with hybrid work remote?
0 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 46 are hybrid. Travel is mentioned in 20 of the 46 postings.
Counted over the 46 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
Employer postings · Locations cover the metro area, not only the city. Responsibility levels reflect our reading of the work, not just the employer’s title. · How we read postings